[raccoonradio]

noticed a bit of a documentary about Ralph Nader on PBS.
He was being portrayed as the skunk at the party because
many on the left feel votes for him prevented Gore from
winning states like Florida. (One person interviewed,
though, said that Gore deserved to lose because the chump
didn’t even win his home state, and the Dems also didn’t
win Bubba’s home state that time ‘round!)

It was fun to see the libs all moaning about how Ralph
had ruined their chances for success. It also showed how
the likes of Michael Moore supported Nader in ‘00(he would
later support Dean, then Wesley Clark, in ‘04) but by
‘04, Moore was so against the idea of Nader running that he
and Jon Stewart (IIRC) got on their knees during a TV
performance to beg Nader NOT to run!

And here we will also get to see libs complaining,
this time about the “stolen election”. Schadenfreude!

[avacado]

"It was fun to see the libs all moaning...",/i>

Moaning libs are always fun to see. That means we did something right. This new TV movie is just another cry fest for them.

[raccoonradio]

The chant was "Gore got more". Whenever this comes up, the libs all say, "but Al got more votes (nationwide)!" We point out to them that the electoral college is set up to ensure that smaller states don't get shafted (if not for the E.C., campaigning would only occur in huge electoral college states; but with the E.C., it's possible for a candidate to win with a coalition of small AND big states).

They will then say, "the electoral college is wrong!" and needs to be gotten rid of, plus "the votes were counted wrong!" Yet surveys have proven them wrong.

electoral college

>>In addition to insuring that the President would be chosen by the individual states, the Electoral College was also a safeguard against something that many in politics joke about, but few wish to address directly, voter fraud. Much has been made of this, because of the closeness of the election. Interestingly, it always seems to be the democrats who are the worst offenders. The last time there was such an outrage over voter fraud was during the Nixon/Kennedy election. In that election, it was later found that dead people had been registered, and that there were many voters who could not be found, registered at addresses which did not exist. The Daley stronghold of Chicago was particularly notorious for this type of thing.

[weegee]

They believe erroneously that Nader syphoned off all of the Gore votes. The Communist, Socialist, Socialist Workers, and Worker’s World parties combined syphoned off enough votes to deny Gore a victory.

What is to make people believe that the Watermelon Greens (Red on the inside) would’ve voted for Gore over all of the other Socialist/Communist parties or just stayed home (or left the ballot blank there)?